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Tim Peake and space station crew mates return to Earth

18 June 2016 Astronomy Now

Live coverage of the Expedition 47 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Coverage from our colleagues at Spaceflight Now. Follow them on Twitter.

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In pictures: Tim Peake’s return to Earth

21 June 2016 Stephen Clark

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Britain’s Tim Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, parachuted to the flat grasslands of Kazakhstan on Saturday, returning home from a six month mission to the International Space Station.

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  • Webb spots vast plume of water vapor spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus
    1 June 2023
  • Seeing the universe in X-rays, optical and infrared, all at once
    26 May 2023
  • A record-setting explosion as a supermassive black hole gorges on gas
    15 May 2023
  • Globular cluster mystery may be explained by short-lived ultra-massive suns
    13 May 2023
  • Jammed radar boom on Jupiter-bound Juice probe finally freed
    12 May 2023
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